I really don't see the point of trying to weight lightning strike distance from a WH57. In essence the WH57 reports three things; the number of lightning strike detected today, the time of the last detected lightning strike and the distance of the last lightning strike. This is clearly stated in the WH57 manual. The Ecowitt Gateway API is not so specific (it omits the word 'last'), but the API reports the same data as displayed by the Ecowitt's WSView Plus app so I think it is safe to assume the API reports time and distance of last strike. So if a given number of lightning strikes occur in a period the Ecowitt gateway driver and any connected console/app will only see time and distance data for the last detected strike, nothing for any earlier strikes.
The referenced PR does not state what type of lighting detector is used, but the code looks suspiciously Ecowitt gateway driver'ish and for the reasons outlined above I really don't see any value in weighting light strike distance. Gary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/bcd2d06b-bfb6-48bd-b290-d8710a869ddan%40googlegroups.com.
